SPAIN

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 62, Issue 4430, 26 May 1941, Page 8

SPAIN

HER POSITION ANALYSED. Mr W. Horsfall Carter, in an article in the London Contemporary Review, writes:— “ Spaniards, by and large, retain immense confidence in British sea power; and the more wary are thinking not so much in terms of a complete Axis victory, as of a sufficient challenge to the traditional AngloFrench domination of the peninsula to let them in for a more important role, in keeping with Spain’s imperial traditions.

“ In the event of a British victory they are hoping for a consolation prize in Morocco and a peaceful transfer of Gibraltar to Spanish sovereignty, subject, perfhaps, to some Control Board keeping watch and ward over this and other strategic key-

points. “ Meanwhile we shall have to face the fact that Spain is for the Axis what the United States of .America is for us—a non-belligerent associate, giving all aid short of war. Whether it suits British policy to leave things like that only time can tell. “ Let us only know exactly where We are and shed all illusions about the ‘ friendship ’ of the Spanish Government, for there are, as Senor del Vayo says, forms of neutrality more dangerous than actual participation.”